Bought this for my book group. I picked it up when I was on holiday in Northumberland and visited the wonderful Barter Books in Alnwick.The book is a great idea but the execution did not quite work for me. The structure is rather confusing and it is hard to track the different narrative strands. An opportunity missed really.

Synopsis from Amazon:-
'What if you had said yes . . . ?

Eva and Jim are nineteen, and students at Cambridge, when their paths first cross in 1958. Jim is walking along a lane when a woman approaching him on a bicycle swerves to avoid a dog. What happens next will determine the rest of their lives. We follow three different versions of their future - together, and apart - as their love story takes on different incarnations and twists and turns to the conclusion in the present day.

The Versions of Us is an outstanding debut novel about the choices we make and the different paths that our lives might follow. What if one small decision could change the rest of your life?'


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Left near the penguin enclosure.